In Pot We Trust
The medical use of marijuana is examined from every side of a very complex issue with this documentary that charts the suffering of four chronically ill patients whose reliance on the illegal drug as a pain killer is in jeopardy due to federal anti-narcotic legislation. Reform organizations, prohibitionist groups, politicians, drug war critics, scientists, and celebrities all get their say in this fascinating analysis. (Excerpt from sho.com)
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The head shop is called Ethnic Concepts! WTF?!
I am cannabis cardholder but fear that past issues will still result in being imprisoned for my use. I feel a little guilty I have not a tenth of some of the ailments I saw on this film. The fact is perhaps I just like to smoke. Do I hurt anyone? Do I take my child to school daily and have been there for both consistently since the day they were born. I take pride in this, and I take comfort in my cannabis. I also believe that children that is under the age of 18 do not partake in any drugs especially from the street I’d prefer them go to a reputable cannabis club. I also believe if they’re old enough to send to war for NOTHING they’re old enough to drink and smoke. Further, I love the scent of it I love the honey in my tea I love that this film gives both sides of the argument it makes sense and is in many cases heartbreaking. I am healthy an ache here and there but again I smoke I don’t hurt anyone I don’t think I should be locked away like an animal for this choice.
Artinad might as well be preaching to the choir i couldnt have said it better myself
i agree, sending people to jail for smoking weed is crazy. As long as you dont hurt people and effect society in any way then what the problem.
very well put together documentary. it clearly shows both point of views which is what people look for (should) in any documentary that discusses issues such as these. i personally fully support the use of marijuana medically and although i smoke marijuana with no medical issues i still think it should be legal for medicinal use only. i believe ANYTHING can be abused to the point of harmful effects and marijuana is one of those substances that can be “used and not abused” and have a benevolent effect on society.
This doc is very good. Nearly the best of the THC bunch. Currently I am not using weed, but I would like to try again. I do have Relapsing/Remitting MS, and I have noticed that when I did use some weed, my jerky movements would disappear. However, I am not someone who would smoke as much as the guy who smoked the 10 joints a day! That is even beyond my chronic use as a teenager. Wow… the effect it had on the woman with Cerebal Palsy from MO was stark, as well as the man with severe MS and the woman from NJ with MS who used the walker. Women tend to have more severe problems with MS. My problems haven’t been nearly that drastic. Despite all that, if I were to use weed again I would try Sativa variety instead of Indica.
BTW, I would add that the stated reasons for prohibition is a canard. The hidden reasons seem more economic than the Public Safety and Policing of crime issue. The hemp plant has so many uses. The paper use alone would drastically cut back on the use of trees as a source of paper. Then there is the use of hemp as a fiber for clothing? Also the use of the fibers for a particle board that is stronger than wood particle board. There are many other uses as well… more study reveals that most of our Free-Market ideology is telling us a big lie.
I think most people visiting this page will agree: The War on (some) Drugs has been lost for some time now. The very idea of protecting people from themselves by hurting them far worse than the behavior you wish to stop…is a sad joke that destroys lives. Yes, marijuana will probably have some negative affect on society if/when it is legalized. Personally, I think that harm will be better than having thousands of people put away in prison to be beaten, raped, and made into hardened criminals. Anyone who has been in jail (for even a month as I have) for a marijuana related offense , a steadily growing number by the way, will know firsthand that the punishment IN NO WAY fits the crime.
It’s time to legalize marijuana and stop torturing people and destroying families and communities over this non-issue.
(OOps, I meant ‘effect’)
@Preachingtothechoir
Absolutely!
And, incidently, extensive studies of areas of the world where pot is legal, show no remarkable adverse effects. In fact, in Amsterdam, it’s mainly the tourists that buy and use the most pot. To the citizens it’s all very mundane.
And, to all the “Won’t someone think of THE CHILDREN!!!” cryers out there, Amsterdam’s pot usage among children is much less per capita than even the U.S. It really is no big deal to them. When it’s freely available there is no great urgency to try it, and certainly no “rush of danger” that many teenagers get from sneaking pot.
Alchohol is a far greater threat to society. (But, as an Irishman, I say, “DON’T TOUCH MY WHISKEY!!!”)
very good documentary, thank you for finding it and sharing it with us
the prohibition of marijuana is coming to an end… don’t worry.
It first started because hemp threatened oil industries, paper industries, pharmaceutical companies and the list just goes on forever. Of-course, using propaganda and control of the media politics made marijuana what it is today. scary right??? makes one think what else is the government lying to me about?
But now with all the lies exposed and medical marijuana established prohibition is coming to an end. even Philip Morris bought 20,000 acres of land in the famous emerald triangle where the whether conditions are perfect for weed growing. ITS ENDING!! once its big business, and the big businesses start lobbying for it, we’ll all see how the government will change their views. T
@Logic
I pray to whatever gods there might be that you are right! If their aren’t any gods, I still hope you are right!
I’m just sayin’, I really, really hope you are right!
Very good documentary. I am Disabled with chronic pain. I agree with Randy when he said those facts about Holland. My experience over there is truly a heart warmer for not only did they allow me to stay an extra two months but help me with medicines I was taking since I couldn’t recieve them from back home. I found my muscle spasms weren’t as bad and the burning from my neck to my lower back wasn’t stiff and in pain. Its very disconcerting when one can recieve such treatment while in a foreign country. I feel I represented us very well as I was learning to speak a little dutch from the phrasebook I bought so there goes your spacecase thoery. I saw churches that were Centuries old and Arches where Roman soldiers Marched through way back when. I also bought a used bike where I was able for the first time in years, the ability to lift up my left leg in order to push the pedal. Something which is hard for me to do to this day as my leg catches and I can’t lift it up. I end up dragging my leg. I have had sciatica and gout and endema. I really don’t blame a bad diet as I eat healthy and do go to the gym every week. These are just conditions that come from alot of prescription use. That I truly believe in. More people need to stand up to their doctors and just say NO! To all the pharmaceuticals, as they aren’t always for everyone. If for anyone at all. Thanks for reading my opinion and have a Nice Day :)
@Rick – “just say NO! To all the pharmaceuticals, as they aren’t always for everyone. If for anyone at all.”
Yeah all the diabetics out there say no to insulin… all you people out there with infections just say no to antibacterials… all you mothers out there that are experiencing pre-mature labor just say no to Progesterone, all you hemophiliacs just say no to anti-haemophilic factor… all you stroke victums say no to blood thinners.
There is no reason that we should continue to keep saving millions of lives every year with pharmaceuticals.
My feeling is that if you were able to make it to Holland in the first place, then you really are not that disabled. If your pain limits you to just not riding a bike then I have no doubt getting stoned in Holland will help.
It is amazingly ignorant and dangerous to think that people should stop using pharmaceuticals.
pots illegal because it can’t be controlled by governments and drug companies. Thats it – its not about whether its ‘good’ or ‘bad’ – anything (coffee, sugar, TV, beer etc) taken in excess is ‘bad’ for you. Moderation in everything is the key. Other drugs (meth, heroin, alcohol, coccaine barbs, hypnotics etc) is manufactured to make money for the criminals (drug companies, governments, banks etc)pot takes that $$ from them and they don’t like it one bit. Marijuana is a wonderful, helpful, creative herb. As someone who had a limb amputated because of a accident involving alcohol and epilepsy from a violent alcoholic father who beat me around the head as a kid I know what I’m saying. As a drug and alcohol counsellor who reccomends pot to his patients and has smoked for 35 years – well, the proof is in the pudding – preferably a nice herb and choccy cookie. remember – rather a father who smokes and loses his car keys then a father who drinks and loses his temper. Wheres my pipe . . .had it here a minute ago . . .
Hi I’m a father of 2 myself and a ‘pot’ smoker who quit. I was abused as a child, taken by the State of Missouri, then adopted. As a boy I had “anger’issues. by the second grade I had already broke another boys arm on purpose in the school yard. At the age of 15 I was introduced to weed. I stopped have violent outburts when I smoked. When my oldest son was almost 3 years old i quit smoking for almost 5 months. after I stoped smoking I started to get more and more like my biological father, lashing out at the littlest of things my son did (no I wasn’t drinking then either) . I started smoking behind my wifes back again @ 2 moths ago. Not on a daily bases, but I am noticing how much calmer I have become again when dealing with my sons, no longer do I spank him for the little things that I did when I wasn’t smoking. I hate the fact I can not control my rage with out a vice. Just this week I told my wife I had been smoking alittle bit latley, didn’t go over well. My fear is that if I don’t smoke it I will abuse my sons like I was abused, and if I do smoke it that i could get busted. Either way I loose my children I’m in a catch 22 here. Before some one says well how about seeing a physiologist from the time I was 5 till the time i was 15 I did, the shrinks didn’t help. What right does anyone have telling me I can’t do something that makes me a calmer person. Weed has done what the church, my adopted parenmts, teachers, and docters couldn’t do , make me a more tolerant person. Sorry this was so long but hadf to add my 50 cents, inflation you know its a batch.
Thank you Top Documentary Films for showcasing so many great videos. I’ve recently been watching the unbiased drug doc’s with my kids to make sure they’re informed of the truth. Nothing is good in excess but many effects have been overstated by the hype pushers. Personally, I am a long time pot user as well as bipolar and possibly schizoaffective. Smoking of this wonderful herb, if it doesn’t completely quiet the voices it definately pacifies them. When I smoke I don’t yell at my kids and am calm enough to feign a somewhat normal father stance. I’m terribly disturbed about the misinformation being spread about cannabis’s affect on psychiatric patients. It should be part of almost every medicinal “cocktail” if effective. It could certainly replace half of the meds I’ve been prescribed over the years.
R.I.P. Jack Herer.